Garfield County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Battlement Mesa, CO
Battlement Mesa gets about 15 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 3 years or so. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 4.5 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 9,500 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00051743, 15 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, Battlement Mesa falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (0.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1993). The first frost here ranks 35th earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (September 30).
When to clean gutters in Battlement Mesa
The first fall frost comes around September 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 17 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Battlement Mesa rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Battlement Mesa the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.25 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,220 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,430, by the rule in the Copper Development Association’s design handbook. Try your own roof in the gutter and downspout calculator, which starts from this figure.
With about 60 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Battlement Mesa
Half the homes in Battlement Mesa were built by 1993, 7% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too.
71% of households own their home, and 43% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Colorado
Before hiring in Battlement Mesa, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Battlement Mesa
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1993, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: